Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Adhesive Plaster

Take three pounds of resin, one-quarter of a pound of beeswax, one-quarter of a pound of mutton tallow, melt together in an iron pan; then pour out about one-third into a bucket of water, turn up the edges until you can take hold with the hands and pull it as you would shoemakers’ wax: grease papers and put the plaster on them for use; you may then pour out the rest and treat it in the same way.